Your Body of Water

Your Body of Water is an autofictional romance in six parts—an odyssey through sex, death, nature, and the feminine.

From Sappho’s Greece to the underground BDSM clubs of Berlin, from Lisbon in lockdown to the vast Australian outback of the 1950s, the narrator drifts across time and place—fleeing the terrible disclosure of one crime as they move toward the historical reckoning of another. With each new destination comes a different voice, a new authorial identity, and the haunting presence of figures from mythology and literature: Leda, Ophelia, the Lady of Shalott, and Sappho herself.

A shape-shifting meditation on desire, violence, and storytelling, Your Body of Water blends genre and history, immersing the reader in a world where bodies and narratives dissolve and reform across generations and continents.

Siouxzi Connor is an Australian-born writer and experimental filmmaker. Her work includes moving-image and installation art, photography, and performance, exploring ecology, sexuality, and hydrofeminisms. Her first book, Little Houses, Big Forests (desire is no light thing), was published by Repeater Books in 2017. She is a former research fellow of the ICI and co-founder of feminist organisation, WØMB. She is based in Berlin.